Indian Cricketer And Their Achievements...
Presents Indian cricketers and their achievements, universally recognized as the best of all time. By the way, cricket in India was started by the British in the 18th century. The India national cricket team played its first Test on 25 June 1932 at Lord's, England.
The India cricket team has won the World Cup twice - in 1983 under the captaincy of Kapil Dev and in 2011 under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Indian cricket has produced some of the best and greatest cricketers on the world stage. There are many such cricketers who have registered their names in the history book from their records. Let's have a look at the list of some such records.
| Records of Indian Cricket Players | |
|---|---|
| Achievement | Achiever |
| First Cricket tournament | The Bombay Triangular which Later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912-1936) |
| First Cricket Club in India | Oriental Cricket Club,1848 |
| First Cricket Test Match | Against England at Lord's June 25, 1932 |
| First ODI Match | Against England at Leeds July 13, 1974 |
| First T20 Match | Against South Africa 1st December 2006 |
| First Test Captain | CK Nayudu, 1932 tour of England |
| First ODI Captain | Ajit Wadekar, 1974 |
| First ODI Won | 1975 against East Africa under the captaincy of S Venkataraghavan |
| First Test Won | Against England in Madras, 1951-52 |
| First Test Series Victory | Against Pakistan, 1952 |
| First Test Series Victory outside Indian Subcontinent | Against New Zealand, 1967-68 |
| First Indian Bowler to take a wicket | Mohammad Nissar |
| First Cricketer to score a half-century | Amar Singh |
| First Cricketer to score a century | Lala Amarnath in 1933 against England in South Bombay |
| First Cricketer to score a double century in Test | Polly Umrigar, 223 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1955-56 |
| First Cricketer to score a triple century in Test | Virender Sehwag, 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004. |
| First Cricketer to score a century in ODI | Kapil Dev, 175* against Zimbabwe in the 1983 Cricket World Cup. |
| First Cricketer to score a double century in ODI | Sachin Tendulkar, 200 against South Africa at Gwalior, 24 February 2010. |
| First Hat-trick in Test match | Harbhajan Singh against Australia in March 2001 |
| First Hat-trick in ODI match | Chetan Sharma against New Zealand in 1987 |
| First Cricketer World Cup Championship Win | At the 1983 Cricket World Cup |
| First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Test Cricket | Sunil Gavaskar (He was the in the world to achieve this feat.) |
| First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODI Cricket | Sachin Tendulkar (He was the in the world to achieve this feat.) |
| First Cricketer to score 100 centuries in Test and ODIs Combined | Sachin Tendulkar |
| Bowler to take all 10 wickets in an innings | Anil Kumble, 10/74 against Pakistan in Delhi,1999 |
| First Batsman to score 50 centuries in Test Cricket | Sachin Tendulkar |
| Highest Test Score | 726/9 against Sri Lanka in Mumbai,2009 |
| Lowest Test Score | 42 against England in 1974 |
| Highest ODI Score | 418/5 against West Indies,2011 at Indore |
| Lowest ODI Score | 54 against Sri Lanka in Sharjah, 2001 |
| Highest Winning margin in ODI | 257 against Bermuda in West Indies,2007 |
| Highest Winning margin in Test Match | Innings and 239 runs against Bangladesh, Mirpur 2007 |
| Highest Score run by Wicket Keeper in ODI | Mahendra Singh Dhoni, 183 against Sri Lanka, 2005 |
| Most Wicket taker in Test Match | Anil Kumble,619 in 132 matches |
| Most Wicket taker in ODI | Anil Kumble,334 in 269 matches |
| Highest Individual Score in Test Match | Virender Sehwag, 319 against South Africa, Chennai, 2008 |
| Highest Individual Score in ODI Match | Rohit Sharma, 264 against Sri Lanka |
| Most dismissals in Test career by wicketkeeper | MS Dhoni |
| Most catches in Test career (non-wicketkeeper) | Rahul Dravid, 209 in 163 matches |
| Highest wicket partnerships in Test Match | Vinoo Mankad & Pankaj Roy, 413 against New Zealand in 1956 |
| First Cricketer to awarded Arjuna Award | Salim Durani |
| Most number of Man of the Match Awards In ODI | 62 by Sachin Tendulkar |
| Most Consecutive Man of the Match Award In ODI | 4 by Sourav Ganguly |
| Most number of Man of the Series Awards In ODI | 16 by Sachin Tendulkar |
| First Batsman to score two centuries in the same test match | Vijay Hazare against Australia in Adelaide, 1947-48 |
| First Batsman to score pair of ducks in the same test match | Vijay Hazare against England in Kanpur, 1951-52 |
| First Batsman to Score 1000 Runs | Vijay Hazare |
| First Indian player to score a century in three successive Test Matches | Vijay Hazare |
| Only Player to achieve 4000 test run and 400 test Wickets | Kapil Dev |
| India's first ever foreign coach | John Wright |
| The first stadium to host a Test match in India | Gymkhana Ground in Bombay, 1933 |
| Wicket Taken on the first bowl of the carrier in Test Match | Nilesh Kulkarni, against Sri Lanka, Colombo, 1997 |
| Wicket Taken on the first bowl of the carrier in ODI | S Ramesh, against West Indies,1999 Bhuvneshwar Kumar against Pakistan, 2012 |
| Fastest Century in ODI | Virat Kohli, 52 Balls against Australia, 2013 |
| Fastest Half Century in ODI | Ajit Agarkar, 21 balls against Zimbabwe, 2000 |
| Fastest Century in Test Match | Kapil Dev and M Azharuddin, 74 balls |
| First Batsman to Score Three Triple Centuries in First Class Match | Ravindra Jadeja |
| Fastest 50 Wicket taker in Test Match | R Ashwin |
| Fastest Test Century on debut | Shikhar Dhawan, against Australia, 85 balls |
| 6 sixes in an over | Yuvraj Singh, against England 2007 |
| Fastest Half Century in T20 | Yuvraj Singh, against England 2007 in 12 balls |
| Man of the Match on ODI debut match | Sandeep Patil |
| Indian bowler to top in the ICC ODI bowler's List | Anil Kumble |
| Most Sixes in an ODI Innings | Rohit Sharma |
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